Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> writes:
>> Is there a reason for the restriction to one byte? Offhand I don't
>> recall that we store TZ offsets on disk at all...
> Ah, we don't. Sorry I wasn't clear. This is only for the lookup table we
> use to interpret time zones on *input*. It is contained in
> src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c
Well, sheesh. Let's widen the byte field to int and store all the
offsets in minutes, or even seconds.
regards, tom lane